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Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Alexander Pope

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Alexander Pope
Age: 56 †
Born: 1688
Born: May 21
Died: 1744
Died: May 30
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Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.
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Mankind is unamendable.
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
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Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
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She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
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Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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Unblemish'd let me live or die unknown Oh, grant an honest fame, or grant me none!
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He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
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Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
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Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
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The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.
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In men, we various ruling passions find In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
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Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?
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A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.
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Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
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Beauty draws us with a single hair.
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